Quilting-frame.



No. 655,094. Patented July 3|, I900. J. L. LAMB.

QUILTING FRAME.

(Application filed Apr. 97, 1900.)

(No Model.)

PATENT Enron.

JOHN L. LAMB, OF OHETOPA, KANSAS.

QUlLTlNG-FRAM E.

$IPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 655,094, dated July 31, 1900.

Application filed April 2'7, 1900. Serial No. 14,619. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, JOHN L. LAMB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohetopa, in the county of Labette and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Quilting- Frame, of which the following is a specifica tion.

This invention relates to quilting-frames; and the object of the same is to provide simple and effective means for adjusting the several parts to compensate for the weight or bulk of the quilt when disposed in excess on one side to keep the frame more nearly balanced and facilitate pursuance of the quilting operation; and, also to readily bring the frame nearer the sewing-machine or to a lower level for hand-sewing as desired and without disarranging or changing the suspending devices; also,'to lighten all the parts and render the manipulation of the frame during the quilting'operation convenient.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the severalparts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a quilting-frame embodying the features of the invention. Fig, 2 is a detail elevation of one of the spring friction-keys.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in both views.

The numeral 1 designates the opposite end frames which are of duplicate construction, and each has a substantially-elongated contour and the end portions drawn together and twisted, as at 2, and terminating at one end in a bearing-eye 3 and at the other end in a bearing-hook, 4:, with an upstanding guard 5 thereover. The upper member 6 of each frame also has a depending bearing-seat 7, and adjustably engaging the said frames are hangers 8, which are also of duplicate construction and arrangement, and each has a lower pair of slide-loops 9 arranged parallel and made up of single-wire extremities, which are interlocked by twisting, as at 10, a short distance above the end frame, with which the said slide-loops engage, and above the interlocked or twisted extremities the hangers are in each instance also formed with a verticallydisposed elongated supporting-loop 11, which stands in a plane at a right angle to the frame 1 below the same. The loops 9are slidable on the frame 1 at each end, so as to position the hangers relatively to the. weight of the 'quilt in excess at one side or the other of the frame, and on the loops ll of the hangers pairs of horizontal slide-loops 12 are adjustably mounted and which are secured to the opposite terminals of a suspending-bar 13, having central connecting-loops 14 for attachment to a trolley-wheel or analogous device freely movable on a wire. This mode of shifting the frame as an entirety will be readily understood and has not been shown, as the application of such Well-known devices is obvious.

In the bearing-eyes 3 a rotatable receivingbar 15 is mounted and has stop heads or disks 16 for engagement with locking-dogs 17, connected to the adjacent portions of the end frames 1 and operating to hold the saidbar in a certain desired fixed position. The bearing-seats 7 also removably and rotatably receive a tension-bar 18, which at times is 111* tended to be in like manner held against movement, and in the bearing-hooks 4 a winding-' roller is also disposed and freely removable, the latter being preferably inthe form of an angular bar and having a retaining-head 19 for engagement by a dog 20. The purpose and function of these several bars will be readily understood, and the special construction of end frames set forth is particularly well adapted for supporting the same and contributes to their efficiency in operation.

The slide-loops carried by the suspendingbar and the hangers have free adjustable movement over the parts they engage, and to frictionally sustain the degree of adjustment desired U shaped spring-wire keys 21 are employed and in one instance are slipped longitudinally into the end frames 1 and the slideloops 9 and in the other instance are disposed in the supportingdoops 11 and in the slideloops 12. These keys set up a frictional binding between the parts they engage and are adapted to be applied or withdrawn at will and when free they assume their normal contour, as shown by Fig. 2, and hence the contraction of the same when in operative relation to the slides establishes the necessary friction to obstruct accidental movement of" the slides on the end frames and the supporting-loops.

By forming the main structure of wire the frame as an entirety is lightened and the cost of manufacture materially reduced, and it will be understood that changes in the form, size, proportions, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departend frames for supporting quilting bars 01" ing from the principle of the-invention. Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as newis I.

1. A quilting-frame comprisingopen-wire end frames for holding the quilting bars or; rollers, hangers having lower pairs ofv slide-; loops for adjustably engaging the end frames. and-also having upper supporting wire loops" in planes at right angles to the end frames, a suspending bar having terminal pairs of slide-loops to engage the supporting-loops,andspring-wire keys inserted in thetend frames and supporting-loops and the slide-loops on thesame totset up a frictional binding between the parts.

' 2. A quilting-frame comprisingop'en-wire end frames for supporting quilting bars or rollers, hangers for the end frames having pairs of slide-loops adjustably engaging the latter, and U -shaped spring-wire keys removably inserted in the end frames and the pairs of slide-loops to set up a frictional binding engagement between the several parts.

'3. A quilting-frame comprising open-wire rollers, hangers for the said frames having up persupportingrloopaa suspending-bar having pairsofterminal slides to adjustably fit over the supporting-loops, and U shaped spring- ,keys to engage the supportingaloops and slides to set up a frictionalengagement betweenthe several parts. i

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' JOHN L. LAMB.

Witnesses: V I

IND. HIGHLEYMAN,

HARRY W. BEDELL. 

